For the most part, historians who study science look on it as progressive, with its breakthroughs and intellectual triumphs seen as a social boon.

Two centuries ago, an engineer with Napoleon's army in Egypt snatched intellectual triumph from the jaws of military defeat by discovering the Rosetta Stone.

Fischbein smiled complacently at me as though he had achieved a major intellectual triumph.

You may call the book an intellectual triumph, if not a fictional one.

Described as 'an intellectual triumph' by John Summerson, Watkin's book is a delight to read and should be recommended to all students.

John let it down, and beheld the port-wine countenance inflamed with intellectual triumph.

No, Ethan realized, his buoyant intellectual triumph turning sickly-sour in his stomach; on tears.

In Kepler's time, however, this doctrine was so far from being regarded as absurd, that its announcement was hailed as a great intellectual triumph.

Particle physics is a great intellectual triumph, and we should be proud of it.

For JQA's earliest intellectual triumphs, too, Adams senior was at least inadvertently responsible.